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Newsclipping from the 'Irish Press', 10 July 1963, containing an article entitled 'Civilians for Irish jumping team'. The article refers to the Irish team for the Royal Dublin Society Show which is to include, for the first time, both military and civilian riders. The team is to include Mary Rose Robinson, Miss Diane Connolly Carew and Jennie Freeman Jackson.

s 16750B

newsclipping

sport

Newsclipping from the 'Irish Times', 13 August 1963, containing an article entitled 'Prospects for the Irish jumping team, Olympic Games in 1964?' The article considers the Irish equestrian team's chances of securing a medal at the next Olympics. It also refers to the team's recent success at the Nation's Cup at the Dublin Horse Show. 'Later this month a civilian team will travel to Belgium and Holland to jump in two international events. The team, chosen by the Show Jumping Association of Ireland, will be made up of Mr Billy McCullagh, Mr Francis Cairns, Miss Heather Moore and Mrs TD Morgan'.

s 16750B

newsclipping

sport

Note, 16 August 1963, outlining the Minister for Defence's statement in relation to the Irish equestrian team's attendance at events in the United States and Canada. 'The Royal Dublin Society are prepared to defray the travelling expenses of Miss Connolly Carew herself to and from America but not for transport of her horse and groom'.

s 16750B

note

Newsclipping of a letter to the editor of the 'Irish Times' from A McCrombie, Munroe, County Limerick, 10 September 1964, relating to the Irish horse-jumping team and their use of the national flag and anthem. 'I noticed in a recent press photograph that Miss Connolly Carew, when winning the Television Cup at the Barcelona Show, had a quartered shield on her saddle-cloth'.

s 16750B

newsclipping

sport; protocol

Copy letter form E Ni Riain, Personal Secretary to the Taoiseach, to the Personal Secretary to the President, 6 May 1963, informing her of the forthcoming Golden Jubilee of Sister Mary Bernard Courtney, Convent of Mercy, Castletownbere, County Cork. 'It is suggested that the President and perhaps the Taoiseach may wish to send her congratulatory messages as she was most helpful during the struggle for independence and has been a great supporter of the National Cause and of Fianna Fail all her life'.

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letter

Note outlining a message which was sent by the Taoiseach, Sean F Lemass, to Sister Mary Bernard Courtney, Convent of Mercy, Castletownbere, County Cork, 26 June 1963, congratulating her on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee.

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note

Hand-written letter from Sister Mary Bernard Courtney, Covent of Mercy, Castletownbere, County Cork, to the Taoiseach, Sean F Lemass, 2 July 1963, thanking him for his message of congratulations on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee. 'I appreciate your kindness more than I can say, and may you live many years as our Taoiseach. Mass also offered for you'.

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letter

Letter from Father Senan, Mount Lawley, Western Australia, to the Taoiseach, Sean F Lemass, 1 August 1963, relating to an American nun named Sister M Dolorine who will celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of her entry into the Congregation of the Sisters of Loretto. He outlines her family background and asks the Taoiseach to send her a message of congratulations. 'Sister M Dolorine's father was a native of County Antrim ... He was captured by the British in 1848 ... returned to the United States and eventually became Territorial Governor of New Mexico. All her long life (she will be ninety-five in October) she has been devoted to Ireland'.

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letter

Copy telegram which was sent by the Taoiseach, Sean F Lemass, to Sister M Dolorine, Loretto Motherhouse, Kentucky, USA, 14 August 1963, congratulating her on the seventy-fifth anniversary of her entry into the congregation of the Sisters of Loretto.

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telegram

Hand-written letter from the Motherhouse, Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross, Kentucky, Nerinx, USA, to the Taoiseach, Sean Lemass, 23 August 1963, thanking him for the message of congratulations which he sent to Sister M Dolorine on the seventy-fifth anniversary of her entry into the congregation of the Sisters of Loretto.

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letter